A 12-year-old girl who fell 14-stories down a chimney and lived to tell about is in an intensive care unit at a New York hospital. According to reports, Grace Bergere was showing her cousin who was visiting from California the view of the New York City skyline from the rooftop of the building she lives in with her parents Saturday night when she climbed a 25-foot ladder up a chimney and fell into it upon reaching the top.

At least one passenger was killed and more than 40 injured when a luxury cruise ship was swamped by mountainous seas as sub-tropical storm hit New Zealand. Metservice forecast that the heavy storm will hit the North Island's western and north parts as residents were asked to evacuate their homes.

Police, with the approval of wildlife experts, have shot a black bear that accidentally stuck a plastic jug on its head when the animal strayed into the community of Frazee during the town's turkey festival. In a statement issued Wednesday, a bear expert at the Department of Natural Resources said they allowed police to kill the bear on Saturday because the animal came close to people. An estimated 1,500 people were in Frazee to celebrate Turkey Day.

A 15-year-old boy doing a paving job here Friday after accidentally being buried by hot asphalt that suddenly unloaded from a truck. Co-workers failed to dig the boy's body out of the heated asphalt and burned their hands in the process. Firefighters who came to the scene on Quarry Road took 14 minutes to recover the dead boy.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that intercourse with a dead person is a crime because there is no consent from the victim. The decision reached by the justices via a vote of 5-2 reverses the ruling of appellate and lower courts dismissing the sexual assault charges on three men who tried but failed to commit necrophilia in 2006.